Donald Trump has hit back at controversial and salacious allegations involving Russian women in his first official press conference.
Yesterday the President-Elect was forced to deny an unverified report that claimed he had been working with Russia for five years. The report also contained details of Trump’s supposed sexual encounters while in Russia. (Let’s just say that #GoldenShower is now trending worldwide. Not sure what a Golden Shower is? Google it).
The outlandish claims overshadowed the rest of the press conference, with Trump has denouncing them as “fake news”. He blasted the leaking of the reports as “disgraceful” and “crap”.
“I think it’s a disgrace that information would be let out,” he said.
“It’s all fake news, it’s phony stuff, it doesn’t happen … It was a group of opponents who got together, sick people, and they put that crap together.”
“It was disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that proved so false and fake to get out. That’s something that Nazi Germany would have done, and did do. That information was false and fake,” he said.
And in direct reference to the #GoldenShower allegations, well his argument was that he’s “very much a germaphobe, by the way. Believe me.” To which he received laughter from the gathered media.
Trump is just nine days out from his inauguration as the 44th President of the United States on January 20.
The release of the information has been highly controversial. The report has allegedly been in circulation for several months, with many major news outlets declining to publish the salacious specifics as they could not be verified. However, yesterday CNN reported that classified documents had been presented to both Trump and President Obama last week which included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising information (both personal and financial) on the incoming POTUS.
BuzzFeed then opted to release a collection of memos, including the salacious details.
Unverified? Definitely. Fake news? Quite possibly.
Either way, Twitter has had a field day.
